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Sheep producers are looking ahead and building confinement lots as a drought management tool.

Independent brand agency Archibald Williams has been appointed as consultants to the Brisbane Broncos, recently launching a new brand campaign, The Heart of Brisbane, asserting the team’s dominance as the city’s iconic sporting organization.

Picture this. An invasion of billions of mice terrorising households, climbing up curtains, swarming onto beds and biting people as they sleep, running amok in supermarkets and hospitals and contaminating drinking water. It’s the stuff of nightmares. But far from being a ghoulish product of the imagination, this is the reality in 21st-century Australia, where a rodent plague of Biblical proportions is devastating food supplies and inflicting misery and hardship. In one case, a woman’s house burned down because the mouse army chewed its way through wiring in her attic. It’s the stuff of ...

"The only good mouse is a dead mouse," Australia's deputy prime minister declared this week, as New South Wales stepped up its war on mice with a plan to poison the plague infesting large parts of the state.

Millions of mice have overrun rural New South Wales, in a plague that is costing the local economy hundreds of millions of dollars.